The Aldosivi Sentinel
Squad5 Feb 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Federico Gino
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aldosivi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market5 Feb 2029
Nicolás Zalazar puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aldosivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
A brace, and Lautaro Chávez takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lautaro Chávez provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Elías Bacre
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Elías Bacre will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aldosivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Feb 2029
Aldosivi end the wait against Patronato
It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Graduation day at Aldosivi
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at Aldosivi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías López is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A falling-out at Aldosivi
Cristian Duma and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces5 Feb 2029
The crowd has taken to Maximiliano Elsener
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Lautaro Chávez the difference as Aldosivi beat Patronato
- Market Fiera steps up from the Aldosivi academy
- Market Aldosivi promote Facundo Vidal from within